>Every pitch I've yet seen on de-dupe has glossed over where the
>metadata goes, and how it's defended.  If you see a data deduplication
>solution which doesn't take at -least- as much care over the DB as we
>do in TSM land, then my opinion is "Flee at flank speed".

I have seen that, but my experience is that if you ask the right
questions, you'll get the right answers.  If they DON'T give you the
right answers, then go on to the next vendor. ;)